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Testing Cookies in Ruby on Rails 2

Posted by Robby Russell Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:27:00 GMT

Over the weekend, Brian Ford released a useful plugin for testing your Ruby on Rails applications called, assert_cookie.

Brian likes his cookies…

“I love cookies. There are, of course, tons of varieties and I’m no connoisseur but I love the soft chocolate chip right out of the oven, hot and gooey. But, if you’re like me, you don’t want your Rails code to be gooey.” -Brian Ford

To use assert_cookie, follow these steps.

  1. Install via, script/plugin install http://svn.planetargon.org/rails/plugins/assert_cookie
  2. Fill your tests with some cookies
  3. Test your cookies!
Here are a few examples that Brian posted.
  assert_cookie :pass, 
      :value => lambda { |value| UUID.parse(value).valid? }
  assert_cookie :yellow, :value => ['sunny', 'days']
  assert_cookie :delight, :value => 'yum'
  assert_cookie :secret, :path => lambda { |path| path =~ /secret/ }, 
      :secure => true

For more information on other plugins and tools that PLANET ARGON is releasing under open source licenses, visit www.planetargon.org.

Also, be sure to subscribe to Brian Ford’s feed as he says he’ll be announcing more plugins and tips soon. :-)

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  1. Avatar
    Chris Blackburn Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:44:01 GMT

    Thanks for this Brian and Robby! I use this code quite a bit.

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    Matt M Thu, 03 May 2007 17:56:48 GMT

    Does this plugin work with edge rails? All of the tests pass but when I try to use the plugin I get some strange behavior.

    assert_cookie :mycookie, :value => ’’ is true all the time assert_cookie :mycookie, :value => ‘someval’ throws an error saying

    NoMethodError: undefined method `value’ for someval

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